When the United States and North Korea hold a historic summit on Tuesday, supporters of former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung say it will be the culmination of a mission launched two decades ago by the Nobel Peace Prize victor.

Led by Sung Kim, a longtime State Department diplomat who now serves as the US ambassador to the Philippines, the USA team had held at least five sessions with the Pyongyang delegation over the past two weeks at the demilitarized zone in Korea.

Kim Hong-gul, the youngest son of former President Kim Dae-jung who now chairs the Korean Council for Reconciliation and Cooperation, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Seoul, South Korea, June 7, 2018.

But in early 2018, North Korea began attempts to improve relations with South Korea by sending a team and delegates to the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.

Officials expect details about North Korea's denuclearization to be discussed in the envisioned second summit, according to the paper.

Concerns that the summit would not take place have turned out to be baseless, however, as the primaries have arrived or are set to arrive in Singapore and everything appears to be on or ahead of schedule.

Bolton's hardline rhetoric last month infuriated North Korea and almost derailed the summit.

The two countries were on the brink of war a year ago, with their leaders trading insults and threats, until Kim made a dramatic offer in March to meet Trump and discuss nuclear disarmament, which the American president quickly accepted. I'll be on a mission of peace, and we will carry in, really - in my heart, we're going to be carrying the hearts of millions of people, people from all over the world.

Dare I say it, conventional politics would not have got us to the point where we are now.

"If Trump can't negotiate a deal on milk with one of our closest allies, how is he going to get a deal on nuclear disarmament with one of our greatest foes?" tweeted Michael McFaul, ambassador to Russian Federation during the Barack Obama presidency. "We must put the American worker first!"

"Sorry, we can not let our friends, or enemies, take advantage of us on trade anymore", Trump wrote in a tweet. He called for North Korea to follow a "Libya model" in negotiations.

Close US ally Japan has urged Trump to bring up the decades-old issue of its citizens abducted in 1970s and 1980s to train Pyongyang's spies in Japanese language and customs.

"The G-7 blowup increases the chance that Trump makes concessions so that the Kim summit looks like a success", said Daniel W. Drezner, a professor of global politics with the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

"We are going to have a great discussion and I think tremendous success". "The Trump-Kim summit is the massive event that has a far-reaching regional implication. What you want to do is start that", Trump said before lift-off to Singapore. We will see each other, we will like each other.

The North, which has been subjected to increasingly strict sanctions by the UN Security Council and others, has made promises of change in the past, such as at the lengthy Six Party Talks process, only for the agreements to collapse later.

Trump advisers cast his actions as a show of strength before the Kim meeting. Trump wrote on Twitter before departing the Shangri La hotel.

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